Swiftcurrent Creek (M) lose ourselves in this and ignore-- that you don't even know my name;;

Alarian wanted to tell him about Lennon and Korei, about how wonderful they were. He was about to, too, but then he fully registered the touch of the other's nose against his shoulder and lost his train of thought.
The boy couldn't help but comment with a slightly coy smile: There usually is. Right now it's those beautiful eyes of yours.

He wanted to tell himself he had no idea where that came from, but that would have been a lie. In what seemed now like a past life, he had been far more familiar with these situations. Now he felt rusty, out of practice. But the strange male was oddly alluring, and Ali found he couldn't quite help but react.